Quotes About Preparation

If I'm going to rehearse, I don't necessarily rehearse in costume.

Every actor prepares differently and to different degrees of privacy. Some want to talk everything out. Others really don't want to talk anything out - or rehearse much.

We're very much perfectionists, so when we're putting on a huge show and want to play to the best of ability, we rehearse intensely. And I have a guitar pretty much in my hand for at least five hours before doing a show. I'm just noodling and mucking around and working on some of the songs here and there.

I like to rehearse. We did a lot of rehearsals for 'Moneyball,' but it is really individual to the actor. It's not like, 'Here is my process, everybody. Fit in.'

When you rehearse a Broadway show, you get two months of rehearsal, while in TV, it's a much shorter process.

If I had my way, we'd rehearse things to death.

I like to rehearse to the point we're in the ballpark, and expect that we're only going to get one proper take, more or less.

I don't really rehearse, because I don't really step into action until I'm forced to. The only way I prepare is just by memorizing it backward and forward so that when I get in the room, I can become the character and not think about the lines so much.

In theatre, you rehearse for months and then perform. That way, you're totally in-sync with your character, the other characters, and the story.

Typically in Korea when I perform I have a full band, a ten-piece band, and that's a completely different monster in itself to prepare and rehearse.

I like to rehearse a lot. Before I hit the stage, I listen to the songs that I would perform and make sure I execute everything.

Rehearsing is more about blocking in the case of movies, I think, and blocking, of course, is very important to the beauty of a scene.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

I don't like rehearsing.

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

I have this habit of not rehearsing a lot; I don't go on practicing my dialogues, pauses, and actions.

I've never liked rehearsing too much.

I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.

I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

It's extremely difficult and very challenging to be a woman in film and television. Just showing up in this business forces you to know yourself. But I learned how to deal with rejection and get tough when I was working as a model - it taught me how to put myself out there. In a way, my time modelling was a preparation for life.

I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.